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whether taxes are placed on goods, which are transported, the merchandise of the seller is always bought at a lower price, & what goes into it on the contrary, is sold more expensively, so much so that there is always a loss, such to the buyers & for the sellers, the merchants always do their accounts well, so that the gain is always on their side, in addition to the tax which they have paid.[2] This is why such taxes are not permitted, except in extreme necessity when there are of great affairs & the finances are exhausted, but even then only for a time, as happened some hundred hundred years ago in the time of King Alderzan, war was declared against the Gengueriens, & their allies who confined this great Kingdom toward the Antarctic Pole, and invaded it, with more than three hundred thousand men, where there were various events during this war on both sides & great ruin to the Provinces by the time & space of six years, but in the end they were defeated & sacked & driven out, & two years later their country most of it put to the sword. All these domains & great revenues are governed & managed in this way. The Council, when sending the Magistrates |
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1. Note: page number reads "52" instead of "58", which is the correct page number.
2. This seems to be a defacto sales tax. |